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Originally Posted by Owen D OK morse I admit I've never read an Irving book. Mainly as his Holocaust Denials have put me right of him. Therefore my arguement I have against him has a huge great hole in it.
Having looked at his website at the amount of research and the sources he used in his Rommel book http://www.fpp.co.uk/books/Rommel/ I will give it a go. A controversial character for certain of his views which is a shame if he really has something worthwhile to contribute that then gets ignored.
I know you say you disagree with most of his conclusions but it was a shock at first to see someone admitting publicly they rate him as as historian. I'd never seen a pro-Irving point of view before. |
His book on Rommel was fascinating to say the least. his work on the actions of Spiedl was very revealing and shows what helped the allies to win on d-day.
As for being pro-irving, that should not come as a shock as he does come with some very strong recommendations from very important people about the accuracy of his earlier work.